Word: angers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Haskell recalls having to take "sort of the Anita Loos approach" to society. "You ask the great big man what he's interested in." At its best, this politeness produces the immensely attractive surface of Southern life. At its worst, it produces an ingrained falseness and bottled-up anger. Billie Carr, a Memphis-born clinical psychiatric counselor, says, "I was raised to hide myself. I was used to being two people...
...anger, in fact, that Lee Valenti, a former anti-busing parent now working within the desegregation program, believes has begun to nettle other disgruntled parents into abandoning ROAR, the secret meetings, the subversive threats, and turn, however begrudgingly, toward parent input councils established under the court order--the Racial-Ethnic Parents Councils and the higher level Citywide Parents Advisory Council (CPAC...
...Anger's the main reason," Valenti, an East Boston resident and member of CPAC, says. "The parents have wised up. They feel Pixie has betrayed them: they elected her to stop busing and she couldn't do it. They're angry over the lousy education their kids are getting. They feel cheated out of their tax dollars (Phase 2B will give rise to at least a $59 tax hike this year alone...
...These people are mad," she says, "but you just can't stay mad over one thing for three years--and there's really only the judge to rant about. You have to reach for new peaks to sustain the anger, so some of these parents--old ROAR people and the apathetic ones--have decided to move past heckling into something tougher, something more challenging. When they see how bad conditions in the schools are, how kids can be carrying home 'A's for grades and 'C's for conduct, they begin to realize that all the demonstrating, all the animosity...
...dismissal and appeal. For one, he argues that Gibson violated regulations in the personnel manual that call for "progressive" discipline of employees, including a warning letter before suspension and a suspension before discharge. One section also reads: "An employee should not be disciplined or discharged in haste or anger. If a serious incident occurs which may warrant discharge, the employee should be suspended pending investigation...